CHARLOTTE, N.C., (Oct. 17, 2001) -- Bobby Hamilton and the Square D
Racing Team return this weekend to Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, the
track where they enjoyed their greatest success thus far of the 2001
NASCAR Winston Cup season. Hamilton took control of the last few laps of
the Talladega 500 in April and won the race, giving car owner Andy
Petree, crew chief Jimmy Elledge and sponsor Square D their first Winston
Cup victory.

In 2000, the Square D Racing Team claimed their best finish of the year
(second) in the fall Talladega event. The RAD program—a cooperative
effort in which Petree, Richard Childress Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc.
share information about the superspeedway events—has claimed four
out of the last five victories on Talladega's superspeedway.

Sense a pattern? So does Hamilton and the team. They look for
Sunday's race, the EA Sports 500, to provide their second victory
of the year, which would give them a sweep of both races at
Talladega's 2.66-mile tri-oval.

A month ago, several teams, including the Square D team, did tests for
NASCAR at Talladega. The Square D Racing Team took the same Chevy that
departed from victory lane at Talladega in April. They experimented with
several different aerodynamic packages. As Hamilton left Alabama after
the test, he felt the same feeling about his Chevy that he had in April,
when he raced Tony Stewart to the checkered flag. The car was ultra-fast.

"We're really excited about going to Talladega," Hamilton said last
weekend during a rain delay in Martinsville. "Our car was very fast
during the test and we learned a lot about our qualifying package while
we were there. I'm hoping that we'll qualify in the top ten
there.

"This car has made a good name for itself," Hamilton continued. "It
always wants the same setup.‘ It's sort of an idiot-proof
car,' is what I always say. I mean it doesn't matter what you
put in it because it'll go fast."

Talladega lends itself to wide-open, side-by-side racing. "If it gets
wild, I usually go to the back and ride a round," Hamilton said.
"That's what I did last time there. I went up front and led one lap
early. Then it seemed to be getting a little hairy up there, so I went
back and rode around in 35th place until, like, 20 laps to go.

"To get to the front and stay there, you have to be real aggressive,"
Hamilton said. "The good part about that is the new aero rule that NASCAR
has on the cars makes them race really comfortable. The bad part of that
rule is how tense a driver is during the whole race. If they start
shuffling around a lot, it punches a big hole and there's a lot of
drafting that goes on. So, it just boils down to if you want to get mixed
up in that all day or not. A lot of guys that have been around for awhile
just want to take their time getting to the front -- including
myself.

"When I go back to Talladega, I don't go there thinking that I have
that place beat already. I go there thinking how I can beat the track
again. I think this is our best car and it's the one that can do
it, but Talladega is always tricky. It's just outsmarting the track
and staying out of trouble that makes a winner there. I can only hope
that we're the ones who outsmart the track once again."